And The Dead Shall Rise Again

I've finished rebasing my Warmaster Undead Army, Tomb Kings to be precise.

Here they are:

Well over 2000 points worth of, ehm, bones, just bones.

The Monsters, two Sphinxes and two Bone Giants.

Slow in movement but hard to kill, you don't want any of these to get on your flanks.

Mind you they are bad enough attacking you anywhere.

Bone Throwers. These are a pain to rank up as the bone bows are way too wide for the bases.

Skull Chuckers, the heavy artillery of the Undead world.

Undead Archers, death in the shadow of their arrows.

You don't want the enemy to get close to these, they can be fragile in close combat.

Undead Spearmen

These can also be raised from corpses on the battlefield.

Chariots, the main striking force.

Undead Cavalry

Handy as a follow-up force to the chariots.

Carrion

Flighty but fragile.

These can also be a 'bustard' to rank up. Look at my cunning solution.

The Commanders, a motley crew of Liche Priests and Heroes.

They must be height conscious as they always seem to be standing up on a little mound.

Not content with a little mound, these guys are magical in their elevation.

These are the most conscious of their high positions, they take to the air on their Zombie mounts.

There's been a lot of drilling and pinning behind the scenes (actually under the bones) of these models as they are prone to accidents.

Both wings are pinned as well as the priests spear (very fragile they are)

Now, all they need is some static grass on their bases. Anyone know what is the latest Undead fashion in static grass?

Knights in White Satin

Never reaching the end.

(Apologies to the Moody Blues)

Sorry, no white satin, just acrylic paint and polyurethane varnish.

I came across some part painted soldiers while rummaging.

They are Warmaster Empire Knights so I thought I would finish them.

Here they are.

Nice, aren't they?

Wait a minute, I'm sure I have more of these somewhere.

Here they are too!

That's a whole Warmaster brigade now.

Talk about reaching the end.

Unfortunately reaching the end will mean some Pistoliers, some Halberdiers and on and on and on.

One day.

Fingers On Buzzers

What am I up to?

I'm ditching a lot of these:

and I'm making a lot of these.

Just what am I up to?

Answers on a postcard or in reply to this post.

PS

The best clue is in the first picture!

Can't See the Wood for the Trees

While rummaging through my drawers ...

I found some Warbases regimental trays,

a few small coins of the Realm,

some scraps of plasticard,

and a bag of small trees I had recently traded (thanks Tim).

I thought that I could do something constructive with them.

I cut up the plasticard into small octogons a little bit smaller than a penny. I drilled small holes through the middle and glued the tree trunks into them. I stuck them on the pennies.

I then textured the bases and painted them greenish.

I also textured the regimental trays and painted them greenish too!

Putting them altogether looked like this.

A little small for 28mm.

A little large for 6mm.

Just fine for 15mm.

Oh Oh!

My wargames hut is getting untidy again.

Several batches of work in progress, 54mm WW2 British Infantry, 28mm Warlord Hanoverian Infantry, some Commanders and some Men of Rohan.

First Aid Training - Get it Done

Many of you will know that I am a retired chap, just turned 65 last month but have been retired from working for 6 years now.

That in itself is nothing to shout about, loads of people have been there, done that, got the T-shirt etc.

My post today had been prompted by an event earlier this morning.

One of my neighbours came banging at the front door, screaming a bit, her boyfriend was in a bad way in their flat.  I ran over the road, found him on the floor, apparently having a fit, blue in the face, breathing erratically and thrashing about.

Despite being bitten twice, kicked a bit (he is a bodybuilder) I managed to get him breathing better and calmed him down a lot. He was trying to swallow his tongue and re-arrange my body parts at the same. Fortunately an ambulance turned up pretty quickly.

The point of my story is that if you have not done any first aid training then get some and soon, you may never know when it will be important to someone. I started my first aid training back in the late sixties and kept it up to date as often as I could. I never ever had reason to use that training until today. I hope it helped.

Your employer may be able to arrange something or if you are self employed then there are many other ways to get that experience.

This site may help:

http://www.redcross.org.uk/en/What-we-do/First-aid/First-aid-training

I don't want people to comment on this post saying well done and all that, I'm not after that. I would like to hear that some of you have taken that step, perhaps already, and gotten some first aid training, you never know when you might need it.

Winston Churchill Autobiography

Currently free on Amazon UK. I understand it is also free on the US Amazon site.

Eight volumes of Winston Churchills Autobiography - KINDLE Edition.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winston-S-Churchill-Youth-1874-1900-ebook/dp/B00VQG4FI0/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1428616458&sr=8-3&keywords=Winston+S.+Churchill%3A+Youth%2C+1874-1900+%28Volume+I%29

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winston-Churchill-Statesman-1901-1914-Biography-ebook/dp/B00VQGKB9C/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1428616585&sr=8-3&keywords=Winston+S.+Churchill%3A+Young+Statesman%2C+1901-1914+%28Volume+II%29

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winston-Churchill-Challenge-1914-1916-Biography-ebook/dp/B00VQHUFJM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428616653&sr=8-1&keywords=Winston+S.+Churchill%3A+The+Challenge+of+War%2C+1914-1916+%28Volume+III%29

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winston-S-Churchill-1916-1922-Biography-ebook/dp/B00VQJ0O7S/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1428616724&sr=8-2&keywords=Winston+S.+Churchill%3A+World+in+Torment%2C+1916-1922+%28Volume+IV%29

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winston-S-Churchill-1922-1939-Biography-ebook/dp/B00VQJ0N06/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1428616785&sr=8-1&keywords=Winston+S.+Churchill%3A+The+Prophet+of+Truth%2C+1922-1939+%28Volume+V

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winston-S-Churchill-1939-1941-Biography-ebook/dp/B00VQJHKA2/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1428616844&sr=1-1&keywords=Winston+S.+Churchill%3A+Finest+Hour%2C+1939-1941+%28Volume+VI%29

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winston-S-Churchill-1941-1945-Biography-ebook/dp/B00VQK9AIG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1428616884&sr=1-1&keywords=Winston+S.+Churchill%3A+Road+to+Victory%2C+1941-1945

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Winston-S-Churchill-1945-1965-Biography-ebook/dp/B00VQL7KIM/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1428616921&sr=1-1&keywords=Winston+S.+Churchill%3A+Never+Despair%2C+1945-1965

Casualty Markers - Another Batch

A chum of mine liked my casualty markers so much that he bought them. Then he rummaged around in his own bits box and asked me to make some more.

Here they are, all based up and ready to paint.

There was a cannon which might have been a key ring at one time.

A French fusilier cut away from his base and dunked face down in the dirt.

An Officer received the same treatment.

 There were some bits of plastic cannon.

A drummer sans drum.

Some proper casualties, Perry perhaps.

Some more plastic cannon, single trail this time.

A British ranker ...

And an Officer.

Some more Perry casualties, eyes right.

And some more, eyes left.

I black undercoated them all.

This painting style starts off with painting all the shadows first.

Including the shadows underneath the figure.

Then I heavily dry-brush them with white.

Done carefully this brings out a lot of the surface detail.

Note the contrast between the black and white areas.

Then it is a simple matter of adding colour to the white bits.

The bronze cannon barrel got a coat of dark brown, then mid-brown and finally some 'shiny' gold.

I carefully painted the white bits on the jacket with watered down blue paint. This allows any of the black areas to show through.

Similarly thinned red paint on the British jacket allows the shading to remain. The rest of the painting is obvious, keep the paint thin. Finish with a dark wash and a coat of matt varnish.

I had, of course, added some basing material, some gravel and some static grass at the appropriate points. Dice holders are from Minibits.


What do you think guys?